Contemporary Paintings
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
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Style: Contemporary
Protect Me From Me - Oya Bolgun -Abstract Painting - Mixed Media
Located in Carmel, CA
Oya Bolgun is a visionary artist whose dynamic and ever-evolving abstract style captures the imagination and inspires the senses. Drawing on her deep passion for self-expression and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Emery 3 - Oya Bolgun - Abstract Painting - Mixed Media
Located in Carmel, CA
Oya Bolgun is a visionary artist whose dynamic and ever-evolving abstract style captures the imagination and inspires the senses. Drawing on her deep passion for self-expression and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
With book, "The Joy Series: A Journey to Inner Happiness" series
Located in Zofingen, AG
"The Joy Series: A Journey to Inner Happiness."
In this series of artworks, I delve into the theme of happiness and joy in unusual times when it seems that the whole world is in a st...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Cardboard
Contemporary Pop Surrealist Portrait With Flowers and Plants "The Birthday Gift"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This painting is one of the works from the "Fetishes" series that Natasha Lelenco created throughout the year 2022 to be featured in the international exhibition Nordart 2022 in Büde...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
"Idea and function" Abstract Painting 67" x 59" inch by Gosha Ostretsov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Idea and function" Abstract Painting 67" x 59" inch by Gosha Ostretsov
Born in 1967, in Moscow
Lived in Paris for ten years (1988 - 1998), now lives and works in Moscow.
PUBLIC CO...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled 11 - Series Final Fantasy, Minutiae Contemporary Figurative Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Framed without glass
Magdalena Peszkowska born in 1980 in Gdańsk, Poland. Studied in Department of Painting at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (1999-2004). Diploma with special recog...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
Hand Signed Original Painting on Canvas
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This is an original painting oil on canvas by Slava Brodinsky. Hand signed by the artist, this piece comes with a letter of authenticity. Measures approximately 16" x 12" (image).
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Peaches and Stems, Yellow Flowers, Red Tulips, Fruit, Pears, Dining Room
Located in Kent, CT
A bright and inviting interior scene with a still life arrangement of red tulips beside a light green pitcher, peaches and pears on a yellow checkered table cloth. The table setting ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled 2 - Series Final Fantasy, Minutiae Contemporary Figurative Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Magdalena Peszkowska born in 1980 in Gdańsk, Poland. Studied in Department of Painting at Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (1999-2004). Diploma with special recognition in painting in ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
"Abstract Composition 9" Abstract Oil Painting 32" x 47" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition 9" Abstract Oil Painting 32" x 47" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
Ashraf El Zamzami was a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Minya, and he fast made a name for hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Clouds Swirling Over the Great Marsh atmospheric contemporary landscape
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Depicting a quiet moment, "Clouds Swirling Over the Great
Marsh" is an atmospheric, contemporary landscape painting inspired by
visits to the Great Marsh of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Taken Aback By My Own Beauty #26
Located in New Orleans, LA
These paintings are images taken directly from life with my daughters. They each represent a fragment of their childhood that is rapidly disappearing. I have chosen to create visual ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ammonite
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Ammonite is a semi-abstract landscape painted in oil onto canvas by Dion Salvador Lloyd, a contemporary artist renowned for his profound sensitivity and profound connection to the na...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Promenons nous dans les bois
Located in STRASBOURG, FR
This is a narrative painting on porcelain with miniatures details. Rose-Marie Crespin describes a walk in the forest. A natural world true trees, flowers and plants. A story between ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Paint
Fendi Poolside (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Model
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Fendi Poolside (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley)"
Series: Eclecticism
*Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and date...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paint, Canvas
Beach Figures (with flying birds)
Located in New York, NY
mixed media on wood
Artist’s Statement
Primarily a painter, I use a hybrid visual language that is both abstract and figurative, and fuse domestic and landscape imagery. I build eccentric formats that promote an improvisational attitude toward composition and playfully references the instability and dislocation characteristic of contemporary life.
In my work, as in life, the past permeates the present and the commonplace collides with the enigmatic and inexplicable.
I make short experimental films using stop motion technique that incorporates sound as well as written and spoken poetic text. Filmmaking significantly broadens the content of my work, and naturally cross-pollinates with my on going painting projects.
Drawing is the core of my studio practice and the engine that drives everything I make.
Artist Biography
Miriam Hitchcock is a painter and experimental filmmaker whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2021 her paintings were profiled and featured on the cover of the book, Artists of the Bay Area Volume 1, published by Jen Tough...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
"Muse" Hand Signed Original Painting on Canvas
Located in Chatsworth, CA
"Muse" is an original acrylic mixed media painting with gold leafing on canvas by Arbe. The piece is hand signed and comes with a letter of authenticity. Measures approximately 30" x...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Taken Aback By My Own Beauty #15
Located in New Orleans, LA
These paintings are images taken directly from life with my daughters. They each represent a fragment of their childhood that is rapidly disappearing. I have chosen to create visual ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In Search of Forgotten Places - Expressive Contemporary Oil Painting, Realism
By Robert Bubel
Located in Salzburg, AT
The painting is signed on the back.
The whole artistic output of Robert Bubel centres around subjective emotions and arousing emotion in the beholder. The source of inspiration- tha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ndebele Village, 1998, Ndebele, Figurative painting, African art
By Esther Mahlangu
Located in Milano, IT
Esther Mahlangu, Ndebele Village, 1998, Acrilico su tela montato su tavola di legno, Munita di cornice originale proveniente da Pretoria, Sud Africa, cm 58 x 78, Firmata e datata Est...
Category
1990s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
The Peak
Located in Zofingen, AG
In the work "The Peak" the artist captured the eternal beauty of untouched heights. As if feeling the breath of the earth, the canvas conveys the drama and tranquility of the mountai...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Beehive Number 2
Located in Bayonne, NJ
An oil on canvas painting by Mykola Zhuravel from his Apiary series. It is very intricate with a number of figures and objects part of the composition, masterfully executed by Zhurav...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Taken Aback By My Own Beauty #2
Located in New Orleans, LA
These paintings are images taken directly from life with my daughters. They each represent a fragment of their childhood that is rapidly disappearing. I have chosen to create visual ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fr. M-R
Located in Bayonne, NJ
Matviy Vaisberg painted this series of portraits while visiting his mother, who was in a nursing home in Germany in early 2000s. This portrait of Frau Muller is an anthropological po...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Taken Aback By My Own Beauty #23
Located in New Orleans, LA
These paintings are images taken directly from life with my daughters. They each represent a fragment of their childhood that is rapidly disappearing. I have chosen to create visual ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
As long as it catches mice
By João Cardoso
Located in MADRID, ES
"It doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice" is a quote attributed to Deng Xiaoping, the target of countless interpretations, all related to attrib...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Taken Aback By My Own Beauty #21
Located in New Orleans, LA
These paintings are images taken directly from life with my daughters. They each represent a fragment of their childhood that is rapidly disappearing. I have chosen to create visual ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Senza Titolo 4 Oil Paint on Copper Portrait In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Senza Titolo 4 Oil Paint on Copper Portrait In Stock
Giovanni Tommasi Ferroni (1967, Rome) descended from an artistic Tuscan family. His grandfather, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Copper
Lee Miller Icon II (Man Ray) /// Huge Contemporary Street Pop Art Painting Model
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Lee Miller Icon II (Man Ray)"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso
Year: 2024
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
Black chair, "The Joy Series: A Journey to Inner Happiness" series
Located in Zofingen, AG
"The Joy Series: A Journey to Inner Happiness."
In this series of artworks, I delve into the theme of happiness and joy in unusual times when it seems that the whole world is in a st...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Cardboard
Midsection, Pink, Golden Yellow, Indigo Blue Curving Lines, Geometric Abstract
By Jenny Kemp
Located in Kent, CT
Geometric shapes compose a pattern of thick lines curving downwards at the center in shades of gray blue to indigo, framed by bright and luminous light pink and pinkish coral curved ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Acrylic
An unscheduled visit to the East Coast., Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Igor Shulman
Located in Yardley, PA
And again my favorite atmosphere is Retro. Minimum color this time. Something unsteady, not designated as a color. A hint of color. Imitation of color. Memories of color. Compositio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Golden, Gold Yellow Orange Lines Dark Purple Eggplant, Mauve Geometric Abstract
By Jenny Kemp
Located in Kent, CT
A symmetrical, geometric shape is composed of curving lines in light golden orange outlined in pale green, bright and luminous against a dark purple, eggplant colored background, sug...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Panel
After party #12, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Igor Shulman
Located in Yardley, PA
(ATTENTION ACTION! If you order two paintings third you will get like a gift. The third painting I choose one from my artworks and put it in the package with your order. I hope this ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dorset Summer Garden, Original painting, Landscape, Nature, plants, Flowers
By Dylan Lloyd
Located in Deddington, GB
Dorset Summer Garden by Dylan Lloyd is an original painting. The scene overlooks a beautiful budding garden in the summertime.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Oil Paint on Canvas
100 H x 80...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hysterical Kats - Scene with Laughing Cats and Well Dressed Women, Original Oil
Located in Chicago, IL
Ben Duke
Hysterical Kats
oil on canvas
28h x 27w in
71.12h x 68.58w cm
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Ben Duke
b. 1977 Louisville, KY
Education
2006 M.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Equilibrium, 120x120сm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Equilibrium, 120x120сm
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Anemones in a terracotta jug, Original painting, Interior art, Flowers
Located in Deddington, GB
Anemones in a terracotta jug is an original painting by Gabrielle Moulding. Painted from life in my garden studio. During this year in lockdown I have been painting flowers and I hav...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Framed by Foliage
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Framed by Foliage" by Desmond Akindoju is a captivating artwork that invites viewers into a serene natural setting. In this piece, a man stands amidst lush foliage, seemingly embrac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"My Marie-Antoinette Heart" Contemporary Pop Art Oil Painting with Floater Frame
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Motivated by bold color and fast brushwork, we are moved by the simplicity and thick textured oil paints in these works. Shaoul’s “My Heart Collection” is a vibrant and energetic dis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Board
The Silent Haiku - One-of-a-kind Surrealist Painting
By Jeff Faust
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jeff Faust, a California self-taught artist, finds strength in simplicity, shaping his unique style—dubbed "subtle surrealism" or "visual forms of the written word." His paintings fe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Contemporary Pop Surrealist Portrait "I Just Called To Say "I Love You"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This painting is one of the works from the "Fetishes" series that Natasha Lelenco created throughout the year 2022 to be featured in the international exhibition Nordart 2022 in Büde...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Hallway Floor, Woodgrain Floorboards, Teal Baseboard, White Room Interior Scene
Located in Kent, CT
An interior scene focusing on a hallway floor, the wood grain of the floorboards lovingly depicted, and a teal baseboard offset by white walls. The space is worn with use as if to ec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Le Chat" Abstract Oil Painting 20" x 24" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
Located in Culver City, CA
"Le Chat" Abstract Oil Painting 20" x 24" inch by Ashraf Zamzami
ABOUT
A characteristically bold and optimistic palette does not belie the inescapably pensive nature and at times, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A sad portrait, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Igor Shulman
Located in Yardley, PA
It's an interesting pattern: the fewer people we have in our lives, the more we are drawn to animals. The social vacuum needs something to fill it with. It seems logical to me. And ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman at the table, "The Joy Series: A Journey to Inner Happiness" series
Located in Zofingen, AG
"The Joy Series: A Journey to Inner Happiness."
In this series of artworks, I delve into the theme of happiness and joy in unusual times when it seems that the whole world is in a st...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard, Canvas
Unwind Unfolds - Red & Green Abstract Painting by Marc
Located in Carmel, CA
Unwind Unfolds - Red & Green Abstract Painting by Marc
This masterpiece is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA.
Marc Zimmerman creates pl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bleasure 7 (The Invented Destiny)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Whatever we consider to be inevitable becomes our destiny, built by our own certainty. When this success and this disease come calling, this accident and this great windfall, we act ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ikebana, Original painting, Nature, Floral, Elegant, Blue, white, Flowers, Calm
Located in Deddington, GB
This is a one off artwork created for the English country side drawing room. Growing up in Middle Asia I was greatly influenced by the Eastern aesthetics. As I lived and traveled acr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rustic Building in Estepona, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Potted plants and flowers decorate the sun-washed white buildings of Estepona, Spain. The streets exude an idyllic and peaceful atmosphere, portrayed with soft ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Blinking Olive", Depiction of Common Objects, Food Motif, Acrylic on Wood
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Blinking Olive" is a piece by Kendra Dandy made from acrylic on wood. This piece measures 14"h x 12"w.
Based in Philadelphia, Kendra Dandy (b.1987) is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Pink Flamingo - landscape painting
Located in New York, NY
A farm stands before you on the horizon. A windmill majestically slices the blue sky. A bird, painted in taut brushstrokes, struts on a branch. These are tranquil images; horizon far...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
A new hat
Located in Bayonne, NJ
This is an oil on Belgian linen painting by Volodymyr Radko with allegorical take on a Renaissance portrait. It comes framed and in excellent condition.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
"When Sunflowers Are Falling...", Figurative Oil Painting on Canvas, Flowers
By Victor Wang
Located in St. Louis, MO
“My path through life has been adventurous, exciting, and dream-like. My experience of settling into America in search of better opportunities has been both challenging and inspiring...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Arike
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Arike," an artwork crafted by Alabi Azeez, is a mesmerizing portrayal of femininity, strength, and resilience. The title itself, which translates to "someone to cherish" in the Yoru...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Congress Avenue (V)" Austin, Texas Urban Cityscape Street Scene
Located in Austin, TX
By Pep Suari
36" x 36" Acrylic on Canvas
This dynamic painting is iconic for those from Austin, Texas. It depicts the view of Congress Avenue facing the Texas Capitol building in th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"The Coming of Age", Oil Painting on Canvas, Portrait, Sunflowers, Textured
By Victor Wang
Located in St. Louis, MO
“My path through life has been adventurous, exciting, and dream-like. My experience of settling into America in search of better opportunities has been both challenging and inspiring...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Princess Cakes, Oil Painting
By Pat Doherty
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Delectable desserts made with layers of sponge cake, jam, and pastry cream grace this still life. Dome-shaped marzipan covers them in green and pink, each adorn...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemporary paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary Paintings>paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, red, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Hunt Slonem, Steven Miller, Howard Tangye, and Irena Orlov. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Fabric and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary paintings, so small editions measuring 0.75 inches across are also available.
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